The association between self perceptions of psychological well‐being and overweight in Brazilian children

Our objective was to estimate the prevalence and test the association between psychological well-being and overweight in children. We conducted a cross-sectional study using anthropometrical measures and interviews with 1048 6-10-year-old school children from a Brazilian town. Overweight was assessed by the body mass index and included obesity. Psychological data of children and their parents were collected using a face scale. Poisson regression models were used to test the associations and to obtain unadjusted and adjusted prevalence ratios (PR). The prevalence of overweight was of 15.3% (95% CI: 13.2-17.6) and of only obesity was 3.8% (2.8-5.2). After controlling for age, sex, school type and parental overweight, the prevalence of overweight was 52% and 44% higher in children who reported a psychological dissatisfaction in themselves and in their mothers when compared with those with positive self perception (PR = 1.52 95% CI = 1.02-2.28; P = 0.038) and (PR = 1.44 95% CI = 1.00-2.09; P = 0.049), respectively. The study suggests that actions aiming weight control of children should take into account psychological aspects of children and their families

Association (psychology · Body mass index · Cross-sectional study · Environmental health · Obesity · Overweight · Poisson regression · Population · Test (biology · Demography · Eating Disorders and Behaviors · Medicine · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology · Internal Medicine

• Social Indicators of Well-Being

  Open Access•Frank M Andrews, Stephen Bassett Withey•Social Indicators of Well-Being•1976

  Incluir item

• Trends of obesity and underweight in older children and adolescents in the United States, Brazil, China, and Russia

  Open Access•Youfa Wang, Carlos Augusto Monteiro et al.•American Journal of Clinical…•2002

  Incluir item

• Childhood Obesity and Self-Esteem

  Richard Strauss, Richard S Strauss•PEDIATRICS•2000

  Incluir item

• Childhood obesity

  Open Access•Cara B Ebbeling, Dorota B Pawlak et al.•The Lancet•2002

  Incluir item

• The impact of maternal depression on familial relationships

  L Burke, Laurie A Burke•International Review of Psychiatry•2003

  Incluir item

• Alternatives for logistic regression in cross-sectional studies

  Open Access•Aluísio J D Barros, Aluisio JD Barros et al.•BMC Medical Research Methodology•2003

  Incluir item

• Establishing a standard definition for child overweight and obesity worldwide

  Open Access•Tim J Cole•BMJ•2000

  Incluir item

• Influence of the family nucleus on obesity in children from northeastern Brazil

  Open Access•Ana Marlúcia Oliveira Assis, Ana M Oliveira et al.•BMC Public Health•2007

  Incluir item

• Estudo de validação e reprodutibilidade de uma escala de silhueta para adolescentes

  Open Access•Maria Aparecida Conti, Maria Do Rosário Dias De Oliveira Latorre•Psicologia em Estudo•2009

  Incluir item

• Prevalência de sobrepeso e fatores associados em crianças ingressantes no ensino fundamental em um município da região metropolitana de São Paulo, Brasil

  Open Access•Lenise Mondini, Renata B Levy et al.•Cadernos de Saude Publica•2007

  Incluir item

• Prevalência de sobrepeso e obesidade entre escolares da rede pública segundo três critérios de diagnóstico antropométrico

  Open Access•Yêda De Oliveira Marcondes Sotelo, Fernando Antonio Basile Colugnati et al.•Cadernos de Saude Publica•2004

  Incluir item

• Peer relations and later personal adjustment

  Berta Sichel, Jeffrey G Parker et al.•Psychological Bulletin•1987

  Incluir item

• Psychological correlates of obesity

  Michael A Friedman, Michael Friedman et al.•Psychological Bulletin•1995

  Incluir item